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If you have a Floyd Rose or similar tremolo system on your guitar, somebody probably has tried to explain that you should cut off the ball at the end of the string and lock the end in the tremolo system. Let me clue you in on another way of doing this. I have not seen many people using this trick before, only the people who I have told this. So this should be quite new to many people.
Instead of cutting off the ball, simply leave it on and turn the string the other way around. Stick the string through the whole and attach the other end to your Floyd rose system. Hold the string straight and cut it off so the string is almost straight already. Now lock it on your tremolo. Here's a picture of how it should look like when you are done:
This technique should make it easier to setup the strings on your Floyd Rose or similar tremolo system. Because the string is already fixed at both ends the string wont slip when you are going to tune it up. It also is much easier for people who don't have to much experience yet because once you start using the technique you wont make the mistake of loops which might make your guitar go out of tune if you don't have a nut-lock. Click for a close upHere is a picture showing the detail. As you can see on the photo I left a little extra piece of string wounded on the tuning mechanism. Although this is not really necessary I do this for a reason.
When a string breaks it usually breaks very close to the tremolo system. When you are playing live you probably don't want to put on a new string because this takes up quite some time and tuning with a new string can be quite some problem.
Leaving this extra piece of string makes it very easy to unlock the locking mechanism and get the broken string attached to the tremolo system again. In many situations this is a very nice trick to get you up and running again in under a minute. Usually the guitar stays quite good in tune this way, very much unlike putting on a new string.